The latest asteroid to pass by the Earth will be back in a few years — it's not coming for us, but it may be on a collision course with the moon.

Astronomers at the University of Washington recently discovered a record-breaking asteroid using early images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, Azernews reports, citing foreign media.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 710 meters (just under half a mile) wide, this space rock sets a record for how fast it spins on its axis: about one rotation ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

(via Be Smart) A giant asteroid impact ended the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. How did this mass extinction play out, moment by moment? In this video we meet a geologist who has explored ...

Since the Moon's formation, asteroid impacts have been the dominant exogenous geological process, creating craters and basins across its surface and profoundly altering its topography and geochemical ...

A large object is expected to fly through the sky on Christmas Eve, but it's not a sleigh with eight reindeer and a guy in a big red suit. A giant asteroid will be flying by Earth just in time for the ...

The Moon might be getting some attention in 2032. A small asteroid, roughly 60 metres wide, could smack it. Experts say the odds are low, about 4 percent, but that’s not zero. And that little number ...

A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.